Shloka 7
वेन-पृथु-प्रादुर्भावः, राजधर्मः, पृथिवीदोहनम्
Vena–Pṛthu Episode and the Milking of Earth
अङ्गात् सुनीथापत्यं वै वेनम् एकम् अजायत प्रजार्थम् ऋषयस् तस्य ममन्थुर् दक्षिणं करम्
aṅgāt sunīthāpatyaṃ vai venam ekam ajāyata prajārtham ṛṣayas tasya mamanthur dakṣiṇaṃ karam
安伽由苏尼萨所生，仅得一子——维那。然而为众生之利、为恢复繁衍与秩序，诸圣者仿佛搅拌般“搅炼”其右手，引出王权之力，以重建合乎达摩的统治。
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
FAQs
It signifies a deliberate, sacred extraction of royal power to protect the people—an image of restoring dharma when ordinary kingship fails.
Parāśara frames it as prajārtha—done for the welfare and continuity of the subjects—showing that sovereignty is accountable to cosmic and social order.
Even when Vishnu is not named in the verse, the Purana’s worldview treats legitimate kingship and social stability as functioning under Vishnu’s supreme order (dharma upheld through divinely aligned rule).